Communiqués by Galina and Maria — Translated by Morse and Halberstadt

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Cicada Press, paperback

Publication Date: December 31, 2023

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A bi-lingual edition of Maria Galina’s poetry and diaries written in Odesa during the first six months of the Russia-Ukraine war. Translated by Anna Halberstadt and Ainsley Morse. With an introduction by Polina Barskova.

“Maria Galina’s poems, completed on the brink of Russia’s all-out attack on Ukraine, capture a particular moment of Russophone poetry. Readers are to face instances of poems written on the edge, capturing the moment before in extremis, pulsating with unease and disbelief, and therefore, or because of that, offering all kinds of unforeseen experiments, shifts, and transgressions.” – Ostap Kin

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